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Originally posted by Mach 1
Theres also a school of thought that a lock up converter can give you a higher trap speed, but I dont really know much about it. I think that might help in higher horsepower applications.
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I don't know for sure, but I think it might be true.
I have a 3000 rpm lock up converter, and it great off the line. Gets the car into the powerband very quick. It's also great from a roll up to about 45 mph, when you punch it the tranny drops down and the cars picks up very quick. At highway speeds when the converter goes into lock up mode, it doesn't feel as quick. Just cause of the fact the converter isn't slipping and keeping it closer to a 1 to 1 ratio. Its great on gas, but i still wish i had bought a non lock up converter, for performance reasons.
Also you might want to look into getting a remote trans filter after you mod the tranny. When hooked in line the filter can save your tranny if you converter decides to let go. You won't have any of the converter parts getting flushed back into the trans, they would be stuck in the filter.